Join us for our next OREIO event on December10th 2025!
On December 10th join us for an eye opening presentation on Housing Forever Community Bonds and what they offer as a powerful way towards the solution to the affordable housing crisis. Community bonds allow individuals, organizations, institutions and local businesses to invest directly in the future of their community - in this case Ottawa, earning a financial return while making a meaningful impact.
With market pressures accelerating the loss of low-cost homes and public funding falling short, this joint initiative between two leading Ottawa non-profits offers a new solution to confront the housing crisis. Through community investment, we are aiming to secure and develop permanently affordable, mixed-income housing – ensuring that more residents can live with stability and dignity in the city they call home. Together, Centretown Citizens Ottawa Corporation (CCOC) and Ottawa Community Land Trust (OCLT) are building a future where affordability is not the exception, but the norm.
This presentation will describe how Community Bonds are transforming the approach to preserving affordable housing - forever - right here in Ottawa.
Sarah Button is the Executive Director of the Centretown Citizens Ottawa Corporation. Her 15-year career in affordable housing development, delivery, planning, and policy, spans the public, private, and non-profit sectors in Canada and the UK. Sarah is a Member of the Canadian Institute of Planners and the Chartered Institute of Housing. She is a passionate advocate for non-profit rental housing, and believes that affordable housing should be the easiest thing to build, everywhere and always.
